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...changes will come in phases—one of which is already complete. Over the summer, the familiar grass, a staple of the stadium for 103 years, was removed in favor of a new surface known as FieldTurf. According to the company that manufactures the surface, it is a synthetic system that uses sand and rubber to emulate soil and plastic for blades, taking on the biomechanical properties of natural grass. And judging from early reviews, things are working out well...
...they’ve got another team that’s capable of making the championship run.”The Crimson has taken many of the steps necessary if it wants avoid another Bears championship run. The team has even gone as far as to use the grass-covered practice field—despite Harvard Stadium’s new FieldTurf—in preparation for the grass at Brown Stadium.“We’re back on grass this week,” Murphy said. “It’s all in preparation...
...tickets at the games were able to cash them in for prizes like DVDs, $200 gift certificates to the Coop and stuffed animals. With pop music blaring in the background, students munched on caramel apples, cotton candy, popcorn, corn dogs, and cheeseburgers as they convened on the grass or on Widener and Memorial Church steps. “I’m just having fun dancing with my roommates,” said Sophie Rengarajan ’10 of Grays Hall. “We all got matching hats. It’s roommate-bonding night...
...asking for blessing, and drop them down the well (on the male or female side). Caretakers fish the letters out regularly, and burn them nearby. If you happen to be walking through the area, it's common to find half-scorched fragments of letters to the Mahdi in the grass. On the occasion of the Mahdi's birthday this year, the government installed 60 new payphones at Jamkaran, and extended Iran's mobile network coverage to the site...
...desperate Fox last fall even considered shooting Idiocracy ads that wouldn't show any of the movie at all. But the big studio marketing departments don't work well with high-concept campaigns and grass-roots marketing. They're designed to blast radio and TV into the mass consciousness. Stranger still, they seem not to care that marketing a movie's theatrical distribution can boost its eventual DVD sales, which Idiocracy is very likely to score on. (After a modest theatrical run, Office Space went on to sell 6 million DVDs and videotapes.) That may be because DVD marketing comes...